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Dome : for SSAA choir and piano / Ruth McCall.

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This piece was inspired by the glorious, but now non-existant
Garden Palace, which was an exhibition hall built in 1871 in the
Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, and covered the vast area
roughly between where the Conservatorium and the State Library
are now. It housed all sorts of items on display; exhibitions
from the various states of Australia, overseas collections, and
many Aboriginal artifacts. At the time, it boasted of having the
4th largest dome in the world, underneath which stood a statue of
Queen Victoria. This song depicts the sense of all this jumble of
objects and history going up in flames around the queen and under
the dome, when it burned down a mere 3 years after construction
began.